#1827-1830
U.S. Virgin Islands

U.S. First Day Cover Cachet Display Catalog:
U.S. Scott #1827-1830 FDC Cachets:
1980 Coral Reefs, Part 1, Commercial FDCs

Part of the U.S. First Day Cover Cachet Display Catalog
by Douglas H. Henkle, AFDCS LM #137, henkle@pobox.com

(last updated .02-07-2025)

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This page displays First Day Cover (FDC) Cachets for U.S. Scott #1827-1830 which I purchased in the 1980s or found on the Web since 2018.

At this time most of the cover scans displayed were found on the Web. I scanned some of my personal collection, noted by "{A}", enough so that there is at least one cachet displayed for every entry. I will scan the rest of my over 200 other #1827-1830 FDCs some other time. "First Cachets" listed but not displayed are pictured in black and white in the Catalog, but I have not seen a color copy of those covers.

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      See also: U.S. Scott #1827-1830 FDC Cachets: 1980 Coral Reefs, Part 2, FDCs I serviced
      Also released in the United States Virgin Islands (U.S.V.I.):
      #802 FDC Cachets -- #UXC6 FDC Cachets -- #4326 FDC Cachets -- #2620-#2623 FDC Cachets -- #C145 FDC Cachets -- #UX608 FDC Cachets

      U.S. Scott #1827-1830 were issued on 8-26-1980 at Charlotte Amalie, VI (U.S.V.I.) - (15¢)
      1980 Coral Reefs (coral)*
      Minkus CM948-CM951 [2003 Krause-Minkus Catalog, p. 290]

* -- to distinguish them from the (1-02-2004 Honolulu, HI) #3831a-j 37¢ Nature of America: Pacific Coral Reefs (fish), and the (3-29-2019 St. Louis, MO) #5363-#5370 35¢ Coral Reefs (postcard rate), which I do not collect because they were not issued in the U.S.V.I.

#1827

#1828

#1829

#1830

The four stamps in this series depicted:
     #1827 -- Brain Coral (found in U.S. Virgin Islands)
     #1828 -- Elkhorn Coral (found in Florida)
     #1829 -- Chalice Coral (found in American Samoa)
     #1830 -- Finger Coral (found in Hawaii)

      name link @ = links to that Cachetmaker's Cachet Display page

      First Cachet (...) = This cachet is listed in "Mellone's First Day Cover Photo Encyclopedia of First Cachets Revealed: Vol. 5: 1980s Decade: Limited Edition Printing", p. V-11-12. The Catalog Number noted was assigned by the Editors.

When I have time I will scan many more covers and add them here.

Unknown Cachetmakers:

Identified Cachetmakers

U.S. Scott #1827-1830 -- unknown #1 --- (eBay)
U.S. Scott #1827-1830 -- unknown #2 --- (eBay)
U.S. Scott #1827-1830 -- unknown #3 (3 varieties of type, 21 different photos of coral, only 1 duplicate) --- {A}
U.S. Scott #1827-1830 -- unknown #4 (hand painted, watercolor) (set of 4) --- (eBay)
U.S. Scott #1827-1830 -- unknown #5, paste-on label (add-on?) --- {A}
U.S. Scott #1827-1830 -- unknown #6 "SB"? --- {A}

The only other "SB"? I have seen is for #1874

Identified Cachetmakers:

Unknown Cachetmakers

Andrews Cachets (John Andrews)
Animated Covers (Richard E. Ellis)
Aristocrat
Ark Cachet (T. "Lee") -- First Cachet 1827-1830-A
Art Craft
Art Craft / PCS
Artmaster
Donald W. Ashley GP --- {A}
Barlen Cachets (Leonard Slobodin) --- {A}
Bazaar (Dorothy Benjamin) --- {A}
Bittings (Alan M. Diamant) --- {A}
Cachet-Raleigh-Art-Robin (Raleigh Burnette) -- First Cachet 1827-1830-B, "many var. on first"
Calhoun's Collection Society (CCS) (name?)
Carrollton (Philip Devlin, Jr.)
CM (Carole Murry)
Fred Collins
Colonial (Donald W. Stiegler) --- {A}
Colorano (set of 5)
Colorano Maximum Card (set of 4)
Colorano - R&R (set of 4)
Coral World, St. Thomas, U.S.V.I. -- First Cachet 1827-1830-C
Cousteau Society -- First Cachet 1827-1830-D-G
Cover Craft Cachets (CCC) --- {A}
Rob Cuscaden
Czyl's Penny Post (Jim Czyl) --- {A}
David "C" Cachets (David M. Pritchard, Jr.)
DJ (Dottie Graf)
DRC (D. Rick Chase)
Ralph Dyer
Elite (William R. Campbell) --- {A}
Fleetwood (James A. Helzer)
Fleetwood Proof Card (James A. Helzer)
Gamm (Gerry Adlman)
Gill Craft (Sturgill Gillis)
Ginny's Stamps (Virginia E. Braley) --- {A}

Ginny's Stamps filler card (Virginia E. Braley) (1 of 3 I serviced) --- {A}
Doris Gold
gp Cachets (Geri Peltin) (with a pasted-on actual King Crab shell collage) (#2 of 5) --- {A}
Except for a few FDCs made out of Balsa wood, this is my only other 3-D cover.
Cover scan, the best a flat-bed scanner can do of a 3-D object, two photos and the filler by Geri Peltin explaining how the cover was made. I don't recall who I bought this cover from in 1981. Other than the one saved by the Cachetmaker, which I have not seen, the location of the other three covers is unknown.
Great Picture Covers (Geri Peltin)
Ham #1 (Lois Hamilton)

Ham #2 (Lois Hamilton)
House of Farnam (NOT Farnum) (HF)
J.D. (Jack Davis Covers)
JLP Cachet (John LaPorta) --- {A}
JN Cachet (Jean Nicklin) --- {A}
K.M.C. Venture #59 and #59a (printed) (NOT KMC) (Bill Olvey (William J.))
      Singles: KMC #60 (100 sets), block: KMC #59 and KMC #59a with #802 (200 total). These cachets are listed and pictured with the Cachetmaker's Catalog Numbers on page 9 of "Catalog of K.M.C. Venture Cachets", by Thomas J. O'Hagan

K.M.C. Venture (not listed #1 and #2) (USGS maps cut out and folded into envelopes) (NOT KMC) (Bill Olvey (William J.)) --- {A}
      These cachets are not listed in the "K.M.C. Venture Map Cachets" chapter (p. 132-139) of Thomas J. O'Hagan's book (above)
      The backs have "20/25" and "21/25". I have never seen any other covers like these. So the question is, is this two sets of 25 with two different maps, or one set with 25 different maps?
Kover Kids (Harry B. Harn, Jr.)
L.F.B. (name?) -- First Cachet 1827-1830-I
Lorstan (Loretta & Stanley Sankowski)
Marg (Shea Advertising) (Judith Borek) --- {A}
Ron Myers Cachets
Nova JWM (J.W. Moore) --- {A}
N.O.W.-N.Y. / NOW/NY / NOW-NYC @ (Judith Kaplan) --- {A}
Peripatetic Cachets (Amy Faust) (add-on?)
Postal Commemorative Society (PSC) (w/gold stamp replicas) --- {A}
The backs of all covers are identical.

Fillers:
U.S. Scott #1827-1830 -- Postmasters of America (POA) --- (eBay)
Reader's Digest --- {A}
RJT Fulton, N. York (Ronald J. Traino, Sr.) --- {A}
Claude C. Ries --- {A}
Ross Foil (Ross Wetreich) --- {A}
Sandra's Cachets (Sandra Sue Haimerl) --- {A}
I only own a blank. I have not seen a serviced FDC with this cachet.
SOS Covers (Sheldon O. Schwartz) --- {A}
Spectrum (Seymour Nussenbaum)
TM Historical Covers (Thelma Mayer)
Tudor House (Harry B. Harn, Jr.)
USPS Commemorative Panel

Mint U.S.P.S. Mint Stamp Poster Bulletin @ (aka Souvenir Page), unfortunately, this one was serviced
Someday I will have to search through my large pile of several hundred of them to see if I have a Mint copy of this.

USPS FDOI Ceremony Program
Val (Valerie L. Pence) -- First Cachet 1827-1830-J-M, "4 signed designs for first"
I have found thirteen cachets signed "Val" on the Web, but not #1827-1830, yet. See the list of scans I have for #1921 - #U602. --- (eBay)
Webcraft (Steve Todd @) --- (eBay)
George A. Wesson (Graphic Cachets, Postage Plus Inc.) -- First Cachet 1827-1830-H --- {A} / (eBay)
Western Silk Cachets @ -- {A}
Western Silk #99, #100, #101, #102, #103
Warren P. Wildermuth --- (eBay)
Womens Cover Collectors (Howard Shaughnessy) --- {A}
black / a = black & multicolored
#1827, #1828, #1830, 1830a, #1827-1830